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Itself, today attorneys for christine blasey fords whose allegation of sexual assault against kavanaugh sparked the entire background probe told nbc news the fbi has not contacted her. dr. ford has not even heard from the fbi. the fbi has completed its interview on mark judge, kavanaughs friend who ford identified as being in the room when she was allegedly assaulted. an attorney for deborah ramirez who alleged kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a dorm party at yale said she spoke to the fbi fo...

The white house still expects a report delivered by the end of the week. i mention this is the seventh background probe for judge kavanaugh. the president wants the bureau to do the job thoroughly as long as they do it quickly. >> president trump: i want them to do a very comprehensive investigation. whatever that means according to the senators and the republicans and the republican majority. not a bad thing. i think its a good thing. with that being said i would like it to go quickly. the f.b....

Corroborate what she was saying. its a very scary situation where youre guilty until proven innocent. >> reporter: so president trump is really filling the role of spectator in all of this. the senate holds all of the cards. the center of political gravity has really shifted to lisa murkowski, susan collins, jeff flake, three senators who i think its fair to say dont have donald trump on their christmas card list, so hes sitting back and watching all of this unfold as are all of us. >> geoff, th...

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Thats an interesting story. >> come see steve and i tonight. >> i will see you. i tweeted out that steve really understands politics and the divide in this nation. this new book "the red and the blue" is fantastic. good afternoon, im ali velshi. it is a very scary situation. that is what president trump said about the current situation for his supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh, has the fbi continues its reopened background investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct. whole the sen...

Into some prolonged fishing expedition as you put it for his part, this is the seventh background probe for judge kavanaugh, still the president says, look, i want the bureau to do its job. but, quickly. >> i want them to too to do a y comprehensive investigation. whatever that means according to the senators and the republicans and the republican majority. i want them to do that. i want it to be comprehensive. i actually think its a good thing for judge kavanaugh. i think its actually a good th...

Understand when an investigator gets into a room with someone theyre interviewing, thats supposed to be organic questioning. we dont know what the subjects are going to say. if today the white house says you can only interview these four people and one of those four people mentions someone else or a supermarket or drinking, the door has to be opened. so its impossible to say that the scope is going to be the scope for tomorrow, for the scope until sunday. and i have to say that if i am brett kav...

Energizes the gop, it also energized democrats to go out and vote. the president sent a tweet where he basically argues democrats in congress are already raising questions about the time and the scope of this fbi kavanaugh investigation. what is the democratic game plan if this new background probe on kavanaugh doesnt come up with anything of substance or significance? >> well, amon, whats going to happen is they will proceed to vote. most of the democrats were already united against kavanaugh. ...

Lets go to a former fbi assistant director. chris, welcome back. >> thank you. >> it is unclear what professor ford is asking for, a background probe or criminal probe. can you talk to me about the difference? >> yeah, there is a big difference. the fbi has no independent jurisdiction to open up a stand alone investigation of rape allegations or assault allegations that may have taken 36 years ago. that is a local crime. unless it involves a federal official or on federal land or has some federa...